Imgur Forms Research Alliance DERP
The cleverly-acronymed DERP is a new research alliance aiming to bring data from smaller social platforms to academics and the public alike.
It can be difficult for academic researchers to get their hands on social media data. As The Guardian reports: “The major services at least have a vibrant community of developers and researchers working on ways to access and use data, but for smaller communities, there’s little help provided.”
Thus, Imgur is teaming up with with other community-oriented platforms to offer a one-stop shop for researchers in the form of the Digital Ecologies Research Partnership (DERP). At launch, its partners include:
- Twitch
- Fark
- StackExchange
The alliance is open to new members — those who have data to share can email org@derp.institute,
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